10 Times WWE Blew Their One Big Shot
9. Chad Gable Is Kurt Angle's Son
Nobody saw the Jason Jordan reveal coming, and that's why it happened.
An infuriating Vince McMahon anecdote of yesteryear saw The Chairman change his mind about a major booking move after re-signing Christian shortly before the 2009 Royal Rumble. The bit called for 'Captain Charisma' to cost Jeff Hardy the World Heavyweight Championship against Edge, bringing the Attitude Era favourites back together in a WrestleMania programme that likely would have included Jeff's brother Matt too.
Fans discussed this because they were thrilled to speculate on it happening, but did so with such confident excitement that McMahon deemed it too predictable. And that same thought process could be why Jason Jordan spent the last few months of his career uncomfortably straddling the heel/babyface line as the General Manager's idiotic offspring.
It really didn't need to split American Alpha up either. Nothing is ever 100% nice in WWE, so even if this reunion of Father and Son had the potential to be, the reality of Chad Gable being left out in the cold was a needless byproduct. Team Angle 2.0 was pitched the day Gable and Jordan came together. This was the main roster's warped interpretation of that enthusiastic nostalgia.